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单选题 The small number of newborn babies, which has been caused by high price and the changing social situation of women, is one of the most serious problems in Asia. When people talk about it, you can hear a word invented in Japan, 'DINKS', which means Double Income No Kids. In many major Asian cities like Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo, the cost of a house is extremely high. A young couple who want to buy their own house may have to pay about $300,000 (though prices have fallen). For a fiat with one bedroom, one dining-room, a kitchen, and a bathroom, the couple will pay about $900 a month. What's more, if they want to have a child, the child's education is very expensive. For example, most kindergarten charges are at a child, the child's education is very expensive. For example, most kindergarten charges are at least $5,000 a year. In such a situation, it's difficult to afford children. The number of married women who want to continue working increases rapidly because they enjoy their jobs. However, if they want to have children, they immediately have serious problems. Though most companies allow women to leave their job for a short time to have a baby, they expect women with babies to gave up their jobs. In short, if they want to bring up children properly, both parents have to work, but it is hard for mothers to work. Indeed, women who want to continue working have to choose between having children or keeping their jobs. In a word, Asian governments must take steps to improve the present situation as soon as possible.

完形填空 Airport baggage screeners in the USA, displaying seized chain saws, machetes and knives, 21 travelers to check their luggage for offensive objects before boarding a 22 Officials of the Transport Security Administration (TSA) 23 that since February 2002 more than 7.5 million 24 items had been seized. They included 50,000 box cutters--a 25 said to be used by the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers --and 1,437 firearms as 26 as 2.3 million knives. The TSA officials told a news conference most people with 27 items in their bags intended no malice but advised 28 to consult the website www.tsatraveltips.usa for advice on what to leave behind when 29 a trip. Since the Sept. 11 attacks screeners have confiscated seemingly 30 items like nail clippers and cigarette lighters 31 passengers. But some carry more obviously 32 items. Chain saws, a weed cutting machine, hand saws and machetes, steak knives, bottles of camping stove fuel and perfume bottles shaped like hand grenades were among items 33 as a sample of objects seized at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. While some carry-on items may have been 34 --a hockey stick or a child's plastic sword --other 35 by TSA have yielded razor blades in tennis shoes and a bayonet hidden in a hollowed-out artificial leg.

完形填空 Methods of studying vary; what works 21 for some students doesn't work at all for others. The only thing you can do is experiment 22 you find a system that does work for you. But two things are sure: 23 else can do your studying for you, and unless you do find a system that works, you won't although college. Meantime, there are a few rules that 24 for everybody. The hint is 'don't get 25 '. The problem of studying, 26 enough to start with, 27 the fastest readers have trouble to do that. And if you axe behind in written work that must be 28 , the teacher who accepts it 29 late will probably not give you good credit. Perhaps he may not accept it 30 . Getting behind in one class because you are spending so much time on another is really no solution. Feeling pretty virtuous about the seven hours you spend on chemistry won't 31 one bit if the history teacher pops a quiz. And many freshmen do get into trouble by spending too much time on one class at the 32 of the others, either because they like one class much better or because they find it so much harder that they think they should 33 all their time to it. 34 the reason, going the whole work for one class and neglecting the rest of them is a mistake. If you face this dilemma, begin with the shortest and easiest 35 . Get them out of the way and then go to the more difficult, time consuming work.

完形填空 Have you just been fired? Don't worry. Cheer yourself up and send your 21 . Perhaps another much better opportunity is awaiting you, 22 sometimes you don't realize it. Dan Zawacki was a happy camper, selling computers for Honeywell. One holiday he was 23 creative gifts and then a good idea 24 him—selling dinner live lobsters (龙虾) to his favorite customers. He 25 them himself with butter and put them in the trunk of his car between the computers and started delivering. It was a huge 26 . As a result, one of his customers 27 they go into the lobster business together. Dan laughed. Still, this computer salesman 28 get the idea of lobsters out of his 29 . Why not turn this into a hobby and 30 a few extra dollar? While on a job assignment in Chicago, he 31 a local radio station to give him a few ads in 32 for lobster. Unfortunately, his boss's boss heard his prize salesman 33 lobster, not computers. No surprised. Dan was let go. After 34 the company's car, he started to think maybe this was a 35 . Today, 20 years later, Dan is selling dinners, through his company, Lobster Gram. And he couldn't be happier. Do not be afraid to move on and try your wings. Gather your support system. Persevere! Firing doesn't mean your life is over. It might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you.

完形填空 The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to 21 the Nobel Peace Prize for 1998 to John Hume and David Trimble for their efforts to find a 22 solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Over the past thirty years, the national, religious and social 23 in Northern Ireland has cost over 3,500 people their lives. John Hume has throughout been the clearest and most 24 of Northern Ireland's political leaders in his 25 for a peaceful solution. The foundations of the peace agreement 26 on Good Friday 1998 reflect principles which he has stood for. As the 27 of the traditionally predominant party in Northern Ireland, David Trimble showed great political 28 when, at a critical stage of the process, he advocated solutions which led to the peace 29 . As the head of the Northern Ireland government, he has 30 the first steps towards building up the mutual confidence on which a lasting peace must be based. The Norwegian Nobel Committee also wishes to 31 the importance of the positive 32 to the peace process made by other Northern Irish leaders, and by the governments of Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States. The Norwegian Nobel Committee 33 the hope that the foundations which have now been laid will not 34 lead to lasting peace in Northern Ireland, but also serve to 35 peaceful solutions to other religious, ethnic and national conflicts around the world.

完形填空 What do we mean by a perfect English pronunciation? In one sense there are as many different kinds of English as there are speakers of it. 21 two speakers speak in exactly the same 22 . We can always hear differences 23 them, and the pronunciation of English 24 a great deal in different geographical 25 . How do we decide what sort of English to use as a 26 ? This is not a question that can be 27 in the same way for all foreign learners of English. 28 you live in a part of the world like India or West Africa, where there is a long 29 of speaking English for general communication purposes, you should tend to acquire a good variety of the pronunciation of this area. It would be a 30 in these circumstances to use as a model BBC English or 31 of the sort. On the other hand, if you live in a country 32 there is no traditional use of English, you must take 33 your model some form of practical English pronunciation. It does not care very much which form you choose. The most 34 way is to take as your model the sort of English you can 35 most often.

完形填空 What do we mean 21 a perfect English pronunciation? In one sense there are as many different kinds of English as there are speakers of it. 22 two speakers speak in exactly the same way. We can always hear differences 23 them, and the pronunciation of English varies a great deal in different geographical 24 . How do we decide what sort of English to use 25 a model? This is not a question that can be 26 in the same way for all foreign learners of English. When you live in a part of the world like India or West Africa, 27 there is a long 28 of speaking English 29 general communication purposes, you should 30 to acquire a good variety of the pronunciation of this area. It would be a fashion in these circumstances to use as a model BBC English or 31 of the sort. 32 the other hand, if you live in a country 33 there is no traditional use of English, you must take as your model some form of native English pronunciation. It does not 34 very much which form you choose. The most 35 way is to take as your model the sort of English you can hear most often.

完形填空 From childhood to old age, we all use language as a means of broadening our knowledge of ourselves and the world about us. When humans first 21 , they were like newborn children, unable to use this valuable tool. Yet once language developed, the possibilities for human kind's future 22 and cultural growth increased. Many linguists believe that evolution is 23 for our ability to produce and use language. They claim that our highly evolved brain provides us 24 an innate (天生的) language ability not found in lower organisms. Proponents (支持者) of this innateness theory say that our 25 for language is inborn, but that language itself develops gradually, 26 a function of the growth of the brain during childhood. Therefore there are critical bilogical times for language development. Current 27 of innateness theory are mixed; however, evidence supporting the existence of some innate abilities is undeniable. 28 , more and more schools are discovering that foreign languages are best taught in 29 grades. Young children often can learn several languages by being 30 to them, while adults have a much harder time learning another language once the 31 of their first language have become firmly fixed. 32 some aspects of language are undeniably innate, language does not develop automatically in a vacuum. Children who have been isolated from other human beings do not possess language. This demonstrates that 33 with other human beings is necessary for proper language development. Some linguists believe that this is even more basic to human language 34 than any innate capacities. These theorists view language as imitative, learned behavior. 35 , children learn language from their parents by imitating them. Parents gradually shape their child's language skills by positively reinforcing precise imitations and negatively reinforcing imprecise ones.

完形填空 Students will need 21 all of their language skills in order 22 understand the reading selections in Reader's Choice. The book contains many types of selection on a wide variety of topics. These selections provide practice 23 using different reading strategies to extract the message of the writer. They also give students practice in four 24 reading skills: skimming, scanning, reading for 25 comprehension, and critical reading. Skimming is quick reading for the general ideas of a passage. This kind of rapid reading is 26 when you are trying to decide if careful reading is desirable or when there is not time to read something carefully. Like skimming, 27 is also quick reading. However, in this case the search is more 28 To scan is to read 29 in order to locate specific information, when you read to find a particular date, or number you are scanning. Reading for thorough comprehension is 30 reading in order to understand the total meaning of the passage. 31 this level of comprehension the reader is able to summarize the author's ideas but has not 32 made a critical evaluation of those ideas. Critical reading demands that a reader 33 judgments about what he or she reads. This kind of reading requires posting and 34 questions such as 'Does my own experience support 35 of the author?', 'Do I share the author's point of view?' and 'Am I convinced by the author's arrangements and evidence?'

完形填空 What is intelligence (智力) anyway? When I was in the army I 21 an intelligence test that all soldiers took, and, against 22 of 100, scored 160. I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not 23 have scored more than 80. 24 , when anything went wrong with my car I hurried to him—and he always 25 it. Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man designed questions for some intelligence tests. By every one of them I'd prove myself a 26 . In a world where I have to work with my hands, I'd do poorly. Consider my auto-repair man 27 . He had a habit of telling jokes. One time he said, 'Doc, a deaf-and-dumb (聋哑) man 28 some nails. Having entered a store, he put two fingers together on the counter and made 29 movements with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He 30 his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him some nails. He picked out the right size and left. Well, Doc, the 31 man who came in was blind. He wanted scissors (剪刀). 32 do you suppose he asked for them?' I lifted my right hand and made scissoring movements with my first two fingers. He burst out laughing and said,' Why, you fool, he used his voice and asked for them. I've been 33 that on all my customers today, but I knew 34 I'd catch you.' 'Why is that?' I asked. 'Because you are so goddamned educated, Doc. I knew you couldn't be very 35 ' And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.

完形填空 Scientists in the UK have announced that the piranhafish's reputation 21 a fearsome 22 may well not be deserved. The fish, which is found in the Amazon in Brazil, have been 23 as deadly carnivores (食肉动物) that work in shoals to overwhelm their prey and strip it of its flesh in seconds. However, experts 24 St Andrews University say that piranhas are omnivores (杂食动物) that mainly eat fish, plants and insects. They form big groups not to hunt but to defend 25 against other predators, according to the team. 'Previously it was thought piranhas shoaled as it 26 them to form a cooperative hunting group,' said Professor Anne Magurran. ' 27 , we have found that it is primarily a defensive behavior.' Piranhas can be attacked by animals 28 dolphins, caimans and large fish, so forming a shoal is a good way of 29 being killed. Piranhas of 30 age stay in the middle of the group for 31 and the 32 of the shoal differs according to the level of 33 . When the water level is 34 , the fish form small groups as there is space to escape, but when the water level drops, they form large groups as protection 35 predators.

完形填空 One of the political issues we hear a lot about lately is campaign finance reform. The people who are calling for 21 usually want the government to pay for campaigns and/or limit the mount of money that candidates and their supporters can spend. One reason that reform is 22 for is that it costs so much to run for political office. Candidates have to spend a great deal of time and effort 23 money. The incumbents (those already in office) have 24 time to do their jobs since they must attend so many fund raising events. Another 25 is the fear that candidates will be owned or controlled by the 'special interest groups' that contribute to their campaigns. Sometimes this certainly seems to be the 26 . On the 27 side are those who caution that just because you call something 'reform,' doesn’t mean it’s really 28 . They 29 that our right to freedom of speech is meaningless if the government can limit anyone’s ability to get his or her message out to the people. If one person or a group of people want to tell the 30 what they think about an issue or candidate, they have to 31 advertising on TV, radio, and in newspapers and magazines. They might want to display billboards along highways and banners on heavily trafficked Web sites. All this 32 a-lot of money. Opponents of laws that regulate or limit spending say that you don’t really have freedom of speech or freedom of the press if you can’t get your message out. They say that in a democracy, the government should never be able to regulate political discussion or the means to distribute ideas. They believe that this is most important when the voters are about to make 33 . What do you think about this issue? Listen to what the 34 for national office have to say. Which candidates make the most, 35 to you?

完形填空 There once lived a poor tailor who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy 21 would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself. This so grieved the father that 22 died; yet, in spite of his mother's tears and prayers, Aladdin did not 23 his ways. One day, when he was playing in the streets as usual, a stranger 24 him if he was not the son of Mustapha the tailor. 'I am, sir,' replied Aladdin, 'but he died a 25 while ago.' On this the stranger, who was a 26 magician, fell on his neck and kissed him saying: 'I am your uncle, and 27 you from your likeness to my brother. Go to your mother and tell her I am coming.' Aladdin ran home and told his mother of his newly 28 uncle. 'Indeed, child,' she said, 'your father had a 29 , but I always thought he was dead.' However, she prepared supper, and told Aladdin to seek his 30 , who came laden with wine and fruit. He fell down and kissed the place where Mustapha used to sit, telling Aladdin's mother not to be 31 at not having seen him before, as he had been out of the country for forty years. He then 32 to Aladdin, and asked him his trade, at which the boy hung his head, while his mother burst into tears. On learning that Aladdin was idle and had learned 33 trade, he offered to get a shop for him and stock it with merchandise. The next 34 he bought Aladdin a fine suit of clothes and took him all over the city, showing him the sights, and brought him home at nightfall 35 his mother, who was overjoyed to see her son dressed so fine.

完形填空 The appeal of the world of work is first its freedom. The child is compelled to go to school: he is 21 of authority. As he grows up, he sees 22 it is to be free of school and to be able to choose his job and change it if he doesn't like it. The boys and girls, 23 he has long observed, revisit school utterly changed and apparently mature. Suddenly teachers seem as out of date 24 his parents and the authority of school a ridiculous thing. At the moment the adult world may appear 25 the school world that the desire to enter it cannot be satisfied by exercises in school books. This may not be the 26 but it is a necessary part of growing up, for every man and woman must come sooner or later to the point of saying' Really, I've had enough of being taught; I must 27 '. Some young people come to this decision sooner than they ought. Yet 28 a way this is not a bad frame of mind to be in leaving school. 29 work, the young man makes one of the first great acceptances of life-he 30 the discipline of the material or the process he is working with. He sees the point of it and in doing so 31 life. The work process constitutes a reality in some sense superior to that of school, and this is 32 he so often longs to get to grips with it. Nothing done in school imposes its will in 33 the same way; if the maths master is ill one can get on with something else. But even the boy delivering papers, 34 the driver taking out his bus, discovers that one cannot put it off because there is snow on the ground, or the foreman (工头) is easily annoyed, or he himself 35 that morning.

完形填空 Drawing a picture is the simplest way of putting an idea down on paper. That is 21 men first began to write, six thousand years ago or 22 . The alphabet we now use 23 down to us over a long period of time. It was developed from the picture-writing of ancient Egypt. Picture-writing was useful in many 24 . It could be used to express ideas as well as 25 . For example, a drawing of a 26 meant the object 'man'. 27 a drawing of a man lying on the ground with a spear in him meant ' 28 ' Besides the Egyptians, the Chinese 29 the American Indians also developed ways 30 writing in pictures. But only 31 much could be said as follows. Thousands of pictures would have been needed 32 express all the ideas that people might have. It would have shown many thousands more to express all the objects 33 to men. No one could 34 so many pictures in a lifetime. Either could anyone learn the meaning of all 35 drawings in a lifetime.

完形填空 Scientists who study the brain have found out a great deal about how we learn. They have 21 that babies learn much more from the sights and sounds around them than we 22 before. You can help your baby by taking advantage of her hunger to learn. From the 23 beginning, babies try to imitate the 24 they hear us make. They 'read' the 25 on our faces and our movements. That is 26 it is so important to talk, sing and smile to your child. Hearing you talk is your baby's first 27 toward becoming a reader, because it 28 her to love language and to learn words. As your child grows older, 29 talking with her. Ask her about the things she does. Ask her about the events and people in the story you 30 together. Let her know you are carefully 31 what she says. By keeping her in 32 and listening, you are 33 encouraging your child to think as she speaks. 34 , you are showing that you respect her knowledge and her ability to 35 learning.

完形填空 Physical activity through sports can enhance your child's physical health. Sports can also have a positive effect on his mental health. Sports participation helps children 21 life skills such as learning to 22 with loss and disappointment. These mental health benefits can be 23 helpful during the challenging years of adolescence. As your child grows and his body changes, confidence and self-esteem 24 from a positive body image. 25 sports participation helps your child 26 a healthy weight and see his body as a 27 to succeed on the playing field. A good body image improves mental health so that your child is less 28 to experience feelings of low self-worth. Children who participate 29 sports must learn to work with their teammates to 30 a goal. Through sports, a child is 31 to build confidence in his abilities. Winning does not have to be the only confidence builder. A 32 pass or assist during a game also improves confidence. Exercise and sports participation have been 33 to have antidepressant(抗抑郁的) effects. Children who play sports generally report having a positive 34 on life. Improved self-esteem can 35 a child not only in sports events, but also in academic performance.

完形填空 On the anniversary of the artist's birth, Van Gogh's Sunflowers was 21 for just under ￡25 million at the fine art auctioneers (拍卖商), Christie's, in London. The 22 was triple the previous record of ￡8 million paid in 1985 for Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi. At least ten bidders 23 for the painting, half 24 telephone, anonymously battling it out in leaps of ￡500,000. Van Gogh wrote in a letter of 1889 that one of these Scots or Americans 25 to pay 500 francs—about ￡25 at that time—for 26 a painting. Christie's chairman 27 reporters after the sale, 'it's a rare picture.' A spokesman for the firm added, 'It's fantastic.' Not 28 who was at the auction agreed. One commented, 'More money 29 sense.' Many people do 30 uneasy that a picture could be auctioned for such an unbelievable sum. They find distasteful the contrast 31 this sort of money and the impoverished life of the painter 32 . Van Gogh, once a lay preacher among the miners of Belgium, was more 33 in producing work that dignified labor than he was in selling for a profit. Depressive, poor, unrecognized and 34 suicidal, he remains a romantic figure in the public 35 .